alcover · HackerTrans

    fun repeat(str :: String, n :: Nat) :: List:
        [body]

I may be over-sensitive to looks but... god why ?

    fun repeat(str: String, n: Nat): List =

would be prettier. (I guess authors had to compromise in affecting symbols)

alcover

지난달discuss

Fascinating broken-bot glitch, thank you. Reminds me of some sci-fi movies.

alcover

4개월 전discuss

May the Gods be with him. The nostalgia is very strong. Opening Flash and start a new project was an immense source of joy to me in the 00's.

alcover

5개월 전discuss

Thank you. This reading lowers my anxiety. I believe we'll rationally - and in a hurry - come down to this kind of solution. It makes solid sense.

alcover

6개월 전discuss

> (1) If I read "io.print", is this "the print function in the module io" or "the print method for the variable io"

I don't see the issue. Just look up the id ? Moreover, if modules are seen as objects, the meaning is quite the same.

> checking is much easier if the namespace is clear from the grammar.

Again (this time by the checker) just look up the symbol table ?

alcover

7개월 전discuss

That's it. Plus they would work neatly on old computers/phones.

alcover

7개월 전discuss

I agree. Something componenty like Flash, yes. But it'd be easier to subset what already exists..

alcover

7개월 전discuss

Oh they would care if one shows them much snappier versions of services they use. They just don't know better.

alcover

7개월 전discuss

> that means being compatible with websites that normal people use

No, new adhering websites would emerge and word of mouth would do the rest : normal people would see this fast nerd-web and want rid of their bloated day-to-day monster of a web life.

One can still hope..

alcover

7개월 전discuss

I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with

    - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS
    - A family of very simple browsers that do just that
    - A new Web that adheres to the above

That would make my year.

alcover

8개월 전discuss

I am also doing this. Like you i guess I want a nicer C. I produce my own errors though because it's better for the user.

alcover

8개월 전discuss

Naive question: would using such an OS bring some security by obscurity ?

alcover

8개월 전discuss

You need two keywords. One for assignability and one for writability :

    const ptr;  // can't reassign, can't write-through (if r/o by default)
    const mut ptr;  // can write

alcover

8개월 전discuss

> you don't need both a "const" keyword and a "mutable" keyword

What if the lang has pointers? How express read-only?

alcover

9개월 전discuss

It's important because we seem to be the only (visible) thing that can scheme.

alcover

9개월 전discuss

I agree so much. For all we know yet, there's nothing out there. Nothing conscious or even sentient. So our lives and the life on earth are infinitely important.

I never understood this `we're but a speck`. Do you know of many other specks with life ?

alcover

4년 전discuss

  Get better [...] so that you stand out

Please bear with me but this kind of advice is often a bit puzzling to me. I suppose you don't know the person you're replying to, so I read your advice as a general one - useful to anyone in the parent's position. If you were close to her, it would make sense to help her 'stand out' in detriment - logically - to strangers in her field. But here you're kind of helping every reader stand out.

I realise this comment is a bit vain. And I like the human touch of you helping a stranger.

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